1st Edition

Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered

By V. Kerry Smith Copyright 2011
298 Pages
by RFF Press

298 Pages
by RFF Press

Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply. Originally published in 1979

1: The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity: An Interpretative Introduction; 2: A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources; 3: Entropy, Growth, and the Political Economy of Scarcity; 4: Comments on the Papers by Daly and Stiglitz; 5: Fundamental Concepts for the Analysis of Resource Availability; 6: The Age of Substitutability: A Scientific Appraisal of Natural Resource Adequacy; 7: Comments on the Papers by Brobst and Goeller; 8: Scarcity and Growth Revisited; 9: The Adequacy of Measures for Signaling The Scarcity of Natural Resources; 10: Measures of Natural Resource Scarcity; 11: Summary and Research Issues

Biography

V. Kerry Smith